'Ikrima, Ibn 'Abbas's mawla

Ikrima, known by the kunya Abu Abdallah, a client of Abdallah ibn Abbas. He died in 105 AH. ²

Al-Mas'udi says that he disputed with his master over the one who was commanded to be sacrificed: was it Isaac or Ishmael? He argued for Isaac from the Qur'an. ²

He died in 105 AH, on the day that Kuthayyir Azza died. People said: "The greatest of the jurists and the chief of the poets have died." In the same year al-Sha'bi also died. ²

Ibn Hajar lists him under no. 4673: "Ikrima, Abu Abdallah, the client of Ibn Abbas, Berber by origin: firmly trustworthy, a scholar of Qur'anic exegesis; his being belied on the authority of Ibn Umar is not established, nor is an innovation established from him; of the third (generation); he died in 104 AH, and it was said later." ³

Ibn Hajar cites Kashif al-Dhahabi: he narrated from his master Ibn Abbas, from Aisha and from Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him); Ayyub, al-Hadhdha', Abd al-Rahman Abu al-Ghasil and many narrated from him; he was reliable though an Ibadi who held the doctrine of the sword; Muslim narrated for him in a joined report while Malik avoided him; he died in 106 AH, and it was said 107. ³ In Marasil Abi Zur'a he narrates from Abu Bakr and Ali as mursal reports, and Abu Hatim says he did not hear from Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas nor from Aisha; Ibn Hajar remarks that his narration from Aisha in Sahih al-Bukhari weighs in favour of his having heard from her, and that Abu Hatim's report from his father contains a contradiction. ³

The death date is disputed: Muruj al-Dhahab gives 105 AH, al-Taqrib "104, and it was said later", and Kashif al-Dhahabi "106, and it was said 107". All three reports stand on record with their disagreement. ²³